Steady Days is a small book that holds a wealth of information. I keep very few books to reread, but I’ve dog-eared pages throughout this book and plan to keep it as a reference for years to come. Written in 40 short, easily digestible chapters, it offers key principles to help you approach motherhood as a profession along with practical tools to put those principles into practice.

I enjoyed each of the four sections within Steady Days and appreciate how Jamie tied them together into the overarching goal of becoming an intentional, professional mother:

Getting Organized, including tips for creating a routine and developing a home planner

Retaining Enthusiasm, with encouragement to count our blessings and meditate on things that will help us be enthusiastic as parents

Learning Together, with a great reminder about the different between phases and habits as well as practical ideas for learning together

Making Memories, including ways to make and capture memories together

This week, one lucky Organizing Your Way reader will win a signed copy of Steady Days!

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Every reader has four methods available to enter this contest (for a total of up to four entries):

1. Leave a comment. Which section of Steady Days most appeals to you — getting organized, retaining enthusiasm, learning together or making memories? How do you approach these areas already?

2. Subscribe to my feed via RSS or email. You must confirm your email subscription for it to be a valid entry! Leave a separate comment letting me know you have done so. If you’re already a subscriber, simply leave a separate comment letting me know you’re already subscribed.

3. Subscribe to the Steady Mom blog. Be sure to come back and leave a separate comment once you’ve done so!

4. Follow @mandiehman and @steadymom and tweet the following on Twitter. Be sure to come back and leave a separate comment once you’ve done so!

Become an intentional mother in 2010 & win a copy of Steady Days from @steadymom & @mandiehman: http://bit.ly/831PQE

Prize:
(1) signed copy of Steady Days by Jamie C. Martin

This giveaway ends at noon EST on Saturday, 1/16. I’ll use Random.org to select the winning comment. Winner will be notified by email, and this post will be updated with their name as well!

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A few things you should know about me: I'm a wife and mother of 6, as well as a full-time work-at-home mom, a passionate entrepreneur, a homeschooler, and an INTJ, with a heavy emphasis on the introvert! And I'm pretty sure fair-trade chocolate, loose leaf tea, and Starbucks lattes are among life's greatest pleasures.